Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming